I use LICK in Win10 and WinXP to install puppy linux Just-Lighthouse64 604 but it hangs at loading main file and session file...JL64-604.sfs not found...can't access tty...

I noticed it was trying to search the Lighthouse sfs in usb when that happened, no idea if it has tried searching the harddisk d: drive where I installed the said puppy linux iso on. My boot drive/partition is c: and I've also tried installing it on the said drive/partition but also to no avail.

By the way, both the PCs I worked on are running legacy BIOS , not UEFI, which shouldn't be a problem I thought and, most importantly,I already have other puppy linux versions installed, eg slacko64-6.3.2, tahrpup 6.0.5 CE and Fatdog64-710, all working fine.

Thinking Just-Lighthouse could be incompatible with LICK, also tried the older Lighthouse 64- 6.02 Beta 2 , on both occasions checking md5sum for file integrity just to make sure, but, alas, the same problem occurred - JLH64.sfs not found; can't access tty.

What gives, any advice appreciated. As I'm barely out of the beginner stage in Puppy Linux, I'd be most grateful for a detailed step-by-step description or instruction on how to resolve the problem.

Like I said above, I get error 15 "file not found" every time trying to run Slacko 6.3.2 on old laptop with XP using Lick 1.1.

Slacko 6.3.2 boot CD works fine, but takes a long time.

This is what I did so far:
1. Backed-up the hard drive with XP OS. Success!
2. Googled for puppy linux and understood Slacko 6.3.2 is the newest version. I downloaded the 32bit version of ISO file.
3. Found some instructions stating Lick is the best for double boot. I downloaded Lick 1.1.
4. Ran Lick 1.1 in windows and pointed to the ISO file (took a while to unpack files).
5. Rebooted the PC (many times). Windows works, Slacko doesn't.

I get this "error 15: (http://grub4dos.chenall.net/e/15) file not found"

when I go to that link I get: 404 "/e/15" not found in this site

Should I uninstall the Lick 1.1?
Anyone please?

EDIT: never mind, I figured it out, see below.Last edited by jacek on Sun 26 Mar 2017, 12:12; edited 1 time in total

thanks for listing this directory. it made me realize Lick 1.1 never put that directory on the hard drive (later I realized it put it in the flash drive I was using and it was me who pointed to that in the Lick, I misunderstood the instructions). I manually made the directory for Slacko and copied all the files from live Slacko CD.

It boots now. I still don't like the Slacko interface, even though it's functional alright. Will try Mint KDE next.

Well, no go on installing Mint via Lick. i got this: "lick-fltk.exe encountered a problem and needs to close." Is lick not compatible with Mint?

Hi jacek, it's great that you found out your problem! I'll keep that in mind - I agree it's not clear what you are installing slacko on, and the implications of that decision (namely, that the drive needs to be available on boot). I'll keep this in mind if/when I redesign the interface.

You installing it to your USB also explains why the install took so long - installing normally takes a few seconds, if installing to an internal drive.

Other distributions, such as Mint, are unfortunately not supported at the moment. Adding support for other distributions is also on my list of things to look at, when I get the time.

On my HP notebook, previous versions could not replace Windows as the#1 boot priority. It was necessary to interrupt the bootup and manually choose boot device from the Boot Option Menu. Lick 1.2's new Help/Nothing happens on reboot feature fixes this. After the fix is applied, it boots to grub menu without intervention.

Is there any way of directing the Lick loader to a lickgrub.cfg file in a custom location? If not, please consider this a feature request!

* Download grub2 for windows. Grab the unicode.pf2 file and place it in C:/.
* Make sure your background is also in C:/.
* Edit lickgrub.cfg. Right after set timeout and set delay, there should be a block of video/gfx stuff. Comment that out, and add:

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